12.13.2008

UN to Release U Thant Postage Stamps

By WAI MOE
U Thant, the Burmese diplomat who became secretary-general of the UN from 1961 to 1971, has been honored by the UN with a series of commemorative postage stamps.


Rangoon Residents Suffer Power Cuts

By SAW YAN NAING
Residents in Rangoon have been limited to six hours access to the electricity grid per day.

Tay Za: Recession Taking a Toll

By MIN LWIN
One of Burma’s wealthiest businessmen told company executives recently that the country’s business climate has worsened as a result of the global economic downturn.

Photo Exhibition Captures Spirit of Old Mandalay

By MIN LWIN
A photo exhibition is being held in Mandalay as Burma’s second-largest city prepares to mark the 150th anniversary of its founding next year.

Chin, Faced with Food Shortage, Entering Thailand

By LAWI WENG
A food shortage forces a wave of Chin to enter Thailand illegally through Three Pagodas Pass, say human smugglers.
Illegal Migrant Workers Arrested; Others Hide in Jungle
By SAW YAN NAING
Hundreds of illegal Burmese migrant workers are being rounded up in Mae Sot and sent home to Burma each day.

Thirty more firms financing Burmese junta

The lack of effective sanctions on Burma's military rulers has allowed business firms to invest in the Southeast Asian nation providing millions in revenue to the regime, which faces international...

Brisk sale of single use GSM SIM cards

It is a boon for cell phone users in Burma and single use GSM SIM cards are selling like hot cakes in Yadanabon City ICT Technical Exhibition which commenced today...
Burma needs Rambos
Mizzima.com - New Delhi,Delhi,India
Burmese activists inside the country have been sidelined through the unjustified lengthy sentencing of prison terms, while activists outside the country are ...
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Interview: Former Norwegian PM urges action on Burma
Democratic Voice of Burma - Oslo,Norway
Dec 12, 2008 (DVB)–Former Norwegian premier Kjell Magne Bondevik expressed his hopes for a democratic transition in Burma but said a fair election could not ...
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Health care at risk in cyclone hit areas in Burma: UN
Mizzima.com - New Delhi,Delhi,India
by Mizzima News New Delhi (Mizzima) - Efforts to help Burma's cyclone victims are still being met with a shortage of funds, and efforts on health could be ...
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Houston Chronicle
Elephants have shorter lives in zoos, researchers find
Houston Chronicle - United States
The lifespan for Asian female zoo elephants was 19 years, while those working in Burma in the timber industry had a lifespan of 42 years, ...
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The Irrawaddy News Magazine
UN to Release U Thant Postage Stamps
The Irrawaddy News Magazine - Chiang Mai,Thailand
U Thant, the secretary-general of the UN from 1961 to 1971, was born in Pantanaw, in the Irrawaddy delta in Burma on January 22, 1909. ...
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Stress and lack of exercise are killing elephants, zoos warned
guardian.co.uk - UK
They then compared the lifespans of the captive animals with Asian elephants used by a logging company in Burma, and African elephants living in the ...
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Voice of America
Laura Bush Vows to Continue Human Rights Efforts
Voice of America - USA
The first lady spoke out for women in Afghanistan and refugees from Burma. The US first lady has repeatedly spoken out for the rights of women in ...
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Elephants 'die earlier in zoos'
BBC News - UK
Analysis of the lives of these working Asian elephants was based on data Dr Mar collected in Burma. She says their longer life expectancy - more than 40 ...
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Elephants live longer in wild than zoos
The Associated Press
Myanmar is the country formerly known as Burma. There is some good news, though. The life spans of zoo elephants have improved in recent years, ...
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New Burma 'dirty list' unveiled
Thirty companies have been added to the 'Dirty List' of companies accused of directly or indirectly helping finance Burma’s military dictatorship by operating in Myanmar.
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Study: Elephants live longer in wild than zoos
By om cepluk(om cepluk)
Myanmar is the country formerly known as Burma. There is some good news, though. The life spans of zoo elephants have improved in recent years, suggesting an improvement in their care and raising, said one of the report's authors, ...
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Burma News (12.11.08)
By Rev. Danny Fisher(Rev. Danny Fisher)
According to Reuters, Laura Bush said that the US plans to put $5 million more towards post-Cyclone Nargis disaster relief in Burma. The reports states that immediately following the storm, "the United States sent about $75 million in ...
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India, Burma to change transaction currency to Euro or Singapore ...
By www.deyea.blogspot.com/(www.deyea.blogspot.com/)
by Solomon | New Delhi (Mizzima) - Burma and India has agreed to replace the US dollar with the Euro or the Singapore Dollar to facilitate bilateral trade between the two countries from the beginning of 2009, a Burmese Trade Union ...
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Burma: Struggling for Human Rights
By Ben Oscarsito
New Delhi (Mizzima) - December 10th marks the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the United Nations, to which military-ruled Burma is party. Submitted by Ben Oscarsito to World | Note-it! ...
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